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The Weekly Urchin Recap
By Geo Ong This Urchin’s going on assignment, y’all. I leave tomorrow, and for ten days I will live in and explore the mystical city of Los Angeles. Yes, that one. Yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah, I did … Continue reading
The Jazz Page
By Geo Ong What you once thought was order was closer to chaos; what you later came to see as chaos was closer to order. It’s all the same, the look of it depending on where you stand and who … Continue reading
I Came with Anna Karenina and I Left with Lolita
By Geo Ong Bear with me please while I allow myself to revisit, in an attempt at sincere reconciliation, one of the worst and most regrettable decisions of my life. For those who believe that there is one right person … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature, Travel
Tagged anna karenina, books, edinburgh, fictional characters, lolita, Love, novels, reading
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The Weekly Urchin Recap
By Geo Ong This weekend marks yet another annual anniversary of one of my favourite books, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, which was first published in 1851. Three independent bookstores in the Brooklyn/Manhattan area are hosting marathon readings of the behemoth book, … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Geo, Literature
Tagged anniversary, books, bookstores, brooklyn, herman melville, manhattan, moby-dick, novels, readings, whales
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The Urchin Bookshelf – Fall 2012
Let the leaves fall and the pages turn! Sarah’s books Fun Home by Alison Bechdel After months of reading Geo’s continuously high praise for cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel (see here, here, and here), I decided it was time, … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Literature
Tagged alice walker, alison bechdel, amy goodman, angel nafis, Bill Bryson, blackgirl mansion, books, bookstores, dave eggers, democracy now!, denis moynihand, essential dykes to watch out for, fun home, glitter in the blood, graphic memoirs, matt weiland, mindy nettifee, novels, poetry, revolutionary road, richard yates, sam mendes, sean wilsey, state by state, the color purple, the silenced majority, Vermont
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The Seasonal Urchin Bookshelf Revampathon!
It’s that time again, kids! Here are the books on our horizons. Margaret’s books A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway It’s a tad embarrassing that I’m just now getting around to reading this. A Moveable Feast is Hemingway’s posthumous classic … Continue reading
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Tagged A Moveable Feast, ali smith, books, ernest hemingway, gone to new york, graphic novels, ian frazier, john steinbeck, marjane satrapi, novels, of mice and men, robertson davies, the accidental, the deptford trilogy, the sigh, travel writing, urchin bookshelf, world of wonders
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That’s What He Said
Three times Jan had been called to the colours [military service], but each time had been deferred because of his deplorable physical condition, a circumstance which threw ample light on Jan Bronski’s constitution in those days, when every male who … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues, That's What They Said
Tagged books, gunter grass, jan bronski, military, novels, The Tin Drum, verdun, War!
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You May Know Him As the Guy Whose Book Was Made Into the Movie ‘True Grit’
By Geo Ong Or you may not know him at all. His name is Charles Portis, and he’s an American novelist. Before True Grit was a Coen Brothers movie, it was a 1969 movie directed by a fella called Henry … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdism, atlantis, black humor, black humour, books, books into movies, catch-22, charles portis, coen brothers, comedy, fiction, gnomon society, gnomonism, henry hathaway, masters of atlantis, novels, pythagoras, the master and margarita, thomas pynchon, True Grit
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